Samurai City

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Convenience asks much less of people.

That may be part of why so many shared spaces, organisations, and forms of participation feel increasingly fragile.

I wrote about the tvättstuga, individualisation, participation, and what gets lost when communal life slowly disappears from everyday experience: https://www.martinkubler.com/death-of-the-tvattstuga/

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The old Swedish tvättstuga was never just about laundry.

It was also a space where people negotiated coexistence, shared responsibility, inconvenience, conflict, and participation in everyday life.

My latest piece explores what disappears socially when friction, shared spaces, and communal responsibility slowly disappear from daily life.

New piece: https://www.martinkubler.com/death-of-the-tvattstuga/

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